This semester’s Health Sciences/Biology Speaker Series concludes April 28, when Monterey County's Director of Public Health Hugh Stallworth visits CSU Monterey Bay.

Public Health: The Good, The Better, The Best – Understanding Public Health and Its Importance to a Healthy Community will be Dr. Stallworth's topic.

The lecture will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Room 3145 of the Tanimura and Antle Family Memorial Library. The public is invited. Driving direction and a campus map are available here.

Dr. Stallworth is board-certified in public health and preventive medicine. He earned a medical degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, and served his internship and residency at Detroit General Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital. He completed his Masters in Public Health at CSU Long Beach.

The first 10 years of Dr. Stallworth’s career were spent in private practice. Realizing that he had a gift for teaching, he accepted a position as assistant professor of family practice at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.

Stints as county health officer followed, first in Fresno County and then Orange County.During his tenure in Orange County, he guided the health department through the largest Multiple Drug Resistant TB outbreak in a school in U.S. history.

From 1999 to 2002, he served as national vice president of cancer control for the American Cancer Society, where he developed an outreach model for underserved communities. The model has been successful from Massachusetts to the Mississippi Delta.

He has also served as director of health and hospitals for the city of St. Louis, as well as adjunct associate professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at St. Louis University School of Public Health.

The lecture is sponsored by the Tribeta Honor Society and the Pre-Med Club. For more information, contact Dr. Aparna Sreenivasan at 582-3210.